Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 2000, 5:51 PM MDT for Las Animas County, Colorado. It was in force for 54 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 20, 2000, 5:51 PM MDT (23:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 20, 2000, 6:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Las Animas County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 1:45 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 264 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 409 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -401 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1545 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS55 KPUB 202352 SVRPUB COC071-210045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 551 PM MDT THU JUL 20 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO * UNTIL 645 PM MDT * AT 551 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHEASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY...OR ABOUT 26 MILES SOUTH OF LA JUNTA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE OPEN COUNTRY OF... NORTHEASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY NORTH OF HIGHWAY 160... THIS IS A DANGEROUS THUNDERSTORM! WIND DRIVEN VERY LARGE...DAMAGING HAIL IS LIKELY. GET INDOORS AND IN AN INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS. A BASEMENT CAN OFFER THE BEST PROTECTION. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN PUEBLO. LAT...LON 3763 10354 3731 10354 3730 10309 3762 10309
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 7:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | El Paso | 57 min |
| Jul 19, 8:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 60 min |
| Jul 20, 1:59 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | PUB | El Paso | 61 min |
| Jul 20, 3:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 55 min |
| Jul 20, 4:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 62 min |
| Jul 20, 4:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 90 min |
| Jul 20, 5:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Otero | 94 min |
| Jul 20, 5:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Pueblo | 53 min |
| Jul 20, 5:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent | 53 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.